What to bring with you to obtain a marriage license:
- Drivers licenses, passport, or birth certificate
- You have to know your Social Security Number
- If it is not your first marriage, you must know the end date of the last marriage (divorce-month and year the divorce was finalized, death- month and year the person passed away)
- $51 in cash
-Marriage license is only good for 30 days.
-If the marriage license is not used, the license needs to be returned to the Recorders Office immediately.
-After getting married, the part of the 2 piece license, that has been signed and sealed by our office, must be returned within 10 days after the ceremony.
-After the marriage license is returned, you will need to obtain a certified copy of the recorded license. There is a $10 fee for the certified copy.
Who Can Marry: (451.020)
All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree, between brother and sister of the half as well as the whole blood, between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, first cousins, and between persons who lack the capacity to enter into a marriage contract, are presumptively void; and it shall be unlawful for any city, county or state official having authority to issue marriage licenses to issue such marriage licenses to the persons hitherto designated.